On February 28, California Governor Gavin Newsom‘s office submitted the budget for their 2023-24 Film Tax Credit, a program designed to incentivize Hollywood productions to stay in the Golden State, and the new proposal included mandates that increase “workplace diversity.”
According to the report, “Productions receiving credits under this program are required to set ethnic, racial, and gender diversity goals and to develop a plan to achieve those diversity goals. Those productions are eligible to receive an additional 4 percent tax credit if they meet or make a good faith effort to meet their diversity goals.”